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  1. Re:You can use the Vista boot loader on Dual Boot Not Trusted, Rejected By Vista SP1 · · Score: 1

    And then I was modded down by someone who does not understand sarcasm!

  2. Re:You can use the Vista boot loader on Dual Boot Not Trusted, Rejected By Vista SP1 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I don't understand. Why would anyone need GRUB? Now that Windows Vista is here, there's no reason to run Linux. Vista has Aero!

  3. Re:Why can't he sell it back? on Switching To Solar Power – One Month Later · · Score: 1

    [[citation needed]]

  4. Re:No, GNOME-like values on QT on Shuttleworth Sees Possibility For a QT-based GNOME · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Maybe YOU think GTK is good, but I think its "open file" dialog box is the most poorly thought design I have ever seen. I do not like GTK. Come to think of it, I don't like GNOME that much either. Too... difficult to customize. I'll stick with KDE, even if GNOME gets smart and picks up QT. Which they won't, because the FSF is too narcissistic to use someone else's software.

  5. Re:Logical positivism to the rescue... on Is Mathematics Discovered Or Invented? · · Score: 1

    I think it's "both," but in a different way.

    For example, differential calculus was clearly discovered. In fact, it was discovered independently by Bhaskara and Newton.

    But on the other hand, what about Reed-Solomon error correcting codes (the kind used in CD and DVD media)? I would say this scheme was invented by the two, using Field Theory and using a special case for BCH codes, which were also invented (independently by B and C, and H. Really, their names are insane).

  6. Re:I say! on $1/Gallon "Green Gasoline" In Sight · · Score: 1

    This was the first thing I thought of, too.

  7. Re:NO IT DOES NOT on Does It Suck To Be An Engineering Student? · · Score: 1

    I am glad to say that I have never once had a professor that I felt was trying to make me fail, and I'm a math major and an electrical engineering major.

  8. Re:because they've been conditioned on Why Is Less Than 99.9% Uptime Acceptable? · · Score: 1

    What the hell have you been smoking? I remember unreliable cable before Windows, and the faulty telecom structure in the US has nothing to do with Microsoft. Don't project this all onto MS. Windows might crash a lot, but drawing a connection to other mediums is absolutely an incorrect analogy.

  9. Re:THis is Good, but file sharing is Good too? on Geek Wins Copyright Lawsuit Against Corporation · · Score: 1
    Yes. And more importantly, without a lawyer. IMHO that alone makes it a respectable achievement, regardless of how I might feel about this particular law.

    If you read the court ruling, it stated, "Plaintiff could have sought the profits Defendants derived from the infringement as damages but chose not to do so. Although Plaintiff included a request for this type of damage award in his First Amended Complaint [Docket No. 76], he abandoned his claim for profits in his Second Amended Complaint and did not pursue this theory of relief at trial."

    Translation -- he could have gotten more $$$ with a lawyer.

  10. Re:None of them on Best Super Tuesday Candidate for Technology? · · Score: 1

    Arrow's Impossibility Theorem (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow%27s_impossibility_theorem) says otherwise.
    Remember the "Nader Factor" from 2000? Those were wasted votes that got us 8 years of Bush.

    Take your ideology somewhere else. Ron Paul is a wasted vote.

  11. Re:doesn't matter on New Hampshire Primaries Follow-Up Analysis · · Score: 1

    Except that electoral votes are not fixed. Someone who works for the winning candidate gets to cast the ballot, so you can't buy their vote ahead of time.

  12. Re:Well on computers at least on Why Do Games Still Have Levels? · · Score: 1

    I'd rather get it from an ice KDE.

  13. heh on MIT Sues Frank Gehry Over Buggy $300M CS Building · · Score: 1

    More like GNU/Stata center. Richard Stallman sucks.

  14. Re:Slightly funny on Microsoft Denies Sabotaging Mandriva Linux PC Deal · · Score: 1

    Who cares? Mandriva got their money. Let Microsoft spend more cash.

  15. Re:Conclusions... on Patterns in Lottery Numbers · · Score: 1

    52% of the roulette wheels are not black. Take a look at a roulette wheel sometime. (13 c 5) * .48^13 is the correct expression.

  16. Re:It's this easy: on Wikipedia Begets Veropedia · · Score: 1

    It's like the Ubuntu of Wiki's!

  17. Re:More Portal needed!!! on The Orange Box Review · · Score: 1

    I wish I could mod you down for that "first post" BS. What is this, eBaum's World?

  18. Re:Another one on Vista Vs. Gutsy Gibbon · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    At least Vista can play them legally.

  19. Re:SOFTWARE PROGRAM!!!11111```oneone on RealPlayer Zero-Day Flaw Under Attack · · Score: 1

    Hey, electric power is not redundant. There are other types of power as well. /is an electrical engineer

  20. Re:Shatner is out? on Paramount Casts New James T. Kirk · · Score: 1

    I recant my previous statement. Upon further inspection, it seems a lot of actors from TOS are in this thing. I apologize.

  21. Re:Shatner is out? on Paramount Casts New James T. Kirk · · Score: 1

    If I had mod points, I'd mod you down for even MENTIONING fan-fiction.

  22. Re:Shatner is out? on Paramount Casts New James T. Kirk · · Score: 1

    More like fatner

  23. Re:I hate new features. on Windows XP SP3 Build 3205 Released w/ New Features · · Score: 1, Troll

    Except when it comes to fixing Daylight Saving Time in New Zealand.

  24. Re:Acid on Scientists Deliver 'God' Via A Helmet · · Score: 1

    We're one step closer to Demolition Man.

  25. Re:unsubscribe on Microsoft Working On Health Information 'Vault' System · · Score: 1

    Everyone --- tag "vault13" in honor of Fallout 3!